Bundle or Bundling may refer to: *

Bundling (packaging) Strapping, also known as bundling and banding, is the process of applying a strap to an item to combine, stabilize, hold, reinforce, or fasten it. The strap may also be referred to as ''strapping''. Strapping is most commonly used in the packag ...

, the process of using straps to bundle up items

Biology

* Bundle of His, a collection of heart muscle cells specialized for electrical conduction *

Bundle of Kent Bundle or Bundling may refer to: * Bundling (packaging), the process of using straps to bundle up items Biology * Bundle of His, a collection of heart muscle cells specialized for electrical conduction * Bundle of Kent, an extra conduction pat ...

, an extra conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles in the heart * Hair bundle, a group of cellular processes resembling hair, characteristic of a

hair cell Hair cells are the sensory receptors of both the auditory system and the vestibular system in the ears of all vertebrates, and in the lateral line organ of fishes. Through mechanotransduction, hair cells detect movement in their environment. ...

Computing

Bundle (OS X) In NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, GNUstep, and their lineal descendants macOS and iOS, a bundle is a file directory with a defined structure and file extension, allowing related files to be grouped together as a conceptually single item. Examples of bun ...

, a type of directory in

NEXTSTEP NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. It was developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was initially used for its range of propri ...

and

OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and la ...

Bundle (software distribution) In marketing, product bundling is offering several products or services for sale as one combined product or service package. It is a common feature in many imperfectly competitive product and service markets. Industries engaged in the practice ...

, a package containing a software and everything it needs to operate *

Bundle adjustment In photogrammetry and computer stereo vision, bundle adjustment is simultaneous refining of the 3D Coordinate system, coordinates describing the scene geometry, the parameters of the relative motion, and the optical characteristics of the camera(s ...

, a photogrammetry/computer vision technique

Economics

* Bundled payment, a method for reimbursing health care providers *

Product bundling In marketing, product bundling is offering several products or services for sale as one combined product or service package. It is a common feature in many imperfectly competitive product and service markets. Industries engaged in the practice ...

, a marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product

Mathematics and engineering

Bundle (mathematics) In mathematics, a bundle is a generalization of a ''fiber bundle'' dropping the condition of a local product structure. The requirement of a local product structure rests on the bundle having a topology. Without this requirement, more general obj ...

, a generalization of a fiber bundle dropping the condition of a local product structure *

Bundle conductor An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy across large distances. It consists of one or more uninsulated electrical cables (commonly multiples of three for three-p ...

(power engineering) *

Fiber bundle In mathematics, and particularly topology, a fiber bundle (or, in Commonwealth English: fibre bundle) is a space that is a product space, but may have a different topological structure. Specifically, the similarity between a space E and a ...

, a topology space that looks locally like a product space *

Optical fiber bundle A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable, but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to carry light. The optical fiber elements are typically individually coated with ...

, a cable consisting of a collection of fiber optics

Music

* ''Bundles'' (album), a 1975 album by Soft Machine, including a song of the same title *

The Bundles The Bundles were an anti-folk music group formed in 2001 by Jeffrey Lewis and The Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson. Their members included, in addition to Lewis and Dawson, Lewis' brother Jack, Brooklyn-based drummer Anders Griffen, and indie rock music ...

, an anti-folk supergroup **

The Bundles (album) The Bundles is the only studio album by the supergroup of the same name, released on March 9, 2010 on K Records. Background and recording Fellow anti-folk artists Jeffrey Lewis and Kimya Dawson first met in 2001, and created their first five song ...

, a 2010 album by the group

Politics

* Bundling (fundraising), when donations from many individuals are collected by one person and presented to the recipient *

Bundling (public choice) Bundling is a concept used for studying the selection of candidates for public office. A voter typically chooses a candidate (or party) for the legislature, rather than directly voting for specific policies. When doing so, the voter is essentially ...

, a similar concept to product bundling that occurs in electoral republics

Law

Bundle of rights The bundle of rights is a metaphor to explain the complexities of property ownership. Law school professors of introductory property law courses frequently use this conceptualization to describe "full" property ownership as a partition of var ...

(property law) *

Bundling (antitrust law) Bundling is the setting of the total price of a purchase of several products or services from one seller at a lower level than the sum of the prices of the products or services purchased separately from several sellers. Typically, one of the bundled ...

, setting the total price of several products or services from one seller

Other uses

Bundle Brent Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a fictional character of two of the Agatha Christie novels, '' The Secret of Chimneys'' (1925) and ''The Seven Dials Mystery'' (1929), described as a spirited " it girl". Family Bundle was the eldest daughter of Clem ...

, an Agatha Christie character *

Bundle theory Bundle theory, originated by the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, is the ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection (''bundle'') of properties, relations or tropes. According to bundle th ...

, in philosophy *

Bundling (tradition) Bundling, or tarrying, is the traditional practice of wrapping a couple together in a bed sometimes with a board between the two of them, usually as a part of courting behavior. The tradition is thought to have originated either in the Netherlands ...

, the traditional practice of wrapping one person in a bed accompanied by his/her courter * Sacred bundle, a wrapped collection of sacred items held by a designated carrier in Indigenous American cultures